New House

So this house, wow. We didn’t expect to buy as soon as we did and we certainly didn’t expect to find someone as wonderful as what we did! We had three requirements for a house: 1. It needed to be on land. 2. It needed to get good internet so Joshua could work from home. 3. Location. We needed to be within a 1/2 hour of Lafayette. This house has it all.

It was built in 1877 and sits on nearly 3.5 acres. There are four bedrooms, we use three of them and the fourth is Joshua’s office. We are the first owners who are not decendents of the builder of the home. That is really humbling to think about.

There are a few changes we are going to make, mostly it’s just redoing the kitchen to make it more friendly for my cooking style. I currently have a 1960s stove in there though and it is pretty cool, but I need something bigger. Aside from that and adding some more insulation to the attic, the house was/is in great shape. The previous owners took great care of it…and kept receipts of everything done for the past 10 or more years!

From the driveway. One of the nice things is that the house sits far back from the road.

The back yard. It’s totally fenced in and has a clothes line. I love it.

Another view of the yard.

Looking out to the road.

Gate to the backyard.

We don’t actually use this front door, but lok at it.

I use this room for school things. It’s great.

This room isn’t technically a bedroom (it doesn’t have a closet). We store some things in there, plus have our dressers and Peter’s crib in there as well.

Our bedroom. The colors are wonderful, the light from the windows are great.

We use this area as the music “room”.

The kitchen. We are going to put an island in. The island will have the stove in it, then we will open up the window by the stove.

The really old stove.

Staircase. Look at that. Hardwood and curved. It’s so lovely.

There these doors in the middle room to close off from the ktichen and the living room. It’s grand.

The other side of the middle room. That area is so nice to sit in.

What we call the middle room. It’s quite cozy in here and even better when the fire is going.

So that’s the new house. We love it. The kids love it. We are accepting visitors so let me know when you have time to come by!